Antoine De Saint-Exupery

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.